(m) He afterwards changed his name of Saul for that of Paul, after having converted and bap∣tized the Proconsul Sergius Paulus.] The Author of the one and thirtieth Sermon, attributed to St. Ambrose, tells us, that he changed his name at his Baptism, but this is but a groundless fancy, for in his time they gave no name to any body at their Baptism. Others say, that he changed his name; when he changed his profession; and some pretend to affirm, that he had two Names. The most probable opinion is, that he took the name of Paul after the conversion of Sergius Paulus, for till that time he is constantly called Saul in the Acts of the Apostles, and afterwards he is always called by the name of Paul. It was the custom of the Romans to give their own names to others in testimony of friendship; Josephus for example re∣ceived the name of Flavius from the Emperor Vespasian by way of Honour: [Or rather, because having been once his Prisoner, he set him at Li∣berty: it being usual for freed Men, to take their Patrons Praenomen.]
A new history of ecclesiastical writers containing an account of the authors of the several books of the Old and New Testament, of the lives and writings of the primitive fathers, an abridgement and catalogue of their works ... also a compendious history of the councils, with chronological tables of the whole / written in French by Lewis Ellies du Pin.
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